.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invitation Competition will definitely stay in Indianapolis and be played at famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will certainly additionally organize the 2026 NIT semifinals and champion as portion of the bundled Departments I, II as well as III Guy's Basketball Champions previously announced.The 2025 semifinals are going to take place Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game established for Thursday, April 3. Valet University and the Indiana Sports Firm once more will definitely function as holds for the event.The 88th NIT is going to remain to feature a 32-team field along with the preliminary, 2nd sphere and quarterfinals played at university sites. For the fourth year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed just the best 16 groups (top-four teams in each shell) as well as position the continuing to be 16 crews selected in to the brace geographically where achievable.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals and also championship game were sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse along with more than 9,000 present over both evenings.Additionally, the NIT incorporated former men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and also Association U.S.A. Colleague Commissioner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 time.A legend one of Big 5 instructors, Martelli is the winningest coach in the history of St Joseph's males's basketball. Along with an everlasting record of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as scalp train of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 times and also to six NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight wins finishing the routine season unbeaten as well as rated primary in the country just before being actually outplayed in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That team at that point gained three NCAA event games prior to dropping to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional final.Douglass joined the Conference U.S.A. workers in 2016 and came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. In addition to his obligations along with each guys's as well as girls's basketball, Douglass likewise provides lapse for females's football and also girls's golf and worked as office chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Football Committee for 2 years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was actually a two-year leader of the males's baseball crew at Alcorn Condition.Martelli and Douglass will sign up with an NIT committee that are going to be chaired by Tim Duncan, vice president of sports and also relaxation at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President and Supervisor of Sports Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Branch I guys's baseball instructors, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games will be actually relayed real-time around ESPN platforms. For more information on the champion go to ncaa.com/NIT.